The Magpie (1959)
Aneta, the serf actress of Knyaz Skalinsky, amazes with her beauty and talented performance of Shchepin. After the performance, a frank conversation ensues between them. The interlocutor learns that Skalinsky, pursuing the actress for a long time, gave her lover — a young actor of the troupe — to the soldiers for twenty-five years. After much deliberation, Shchepin decides to help the girl, but is too late...
- Released
- 1959-04-07
- Genres
- Drama
- Runtime
- 78 min
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- Naum Trakhtenberg
- TMDB rating
- 10.0/10 from 1 votes
Cast
- Zinaida Kirienko as Aneta
- Nikolai Afanasyev as Shchepin
- Vladimir Pokrovskiy as Knyaz
- Viktor Korshunov as Stepan
- Anatoliy Kubatskiy as Ugryumov
- Sergei Kalinin as manager
- Aleksandr Grave as successor
- Nikolai Shamin as landlord
- Viktor Koltsov as authorized director of the Imperial Theaters
- Ivan Lobyzovskiy as Knyaz's hairdresser
- Pyotr Kiryutkin as prompter (uncredited)